For a voice and the vote : my journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party / Lisa Anderson Todd.

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"During the summer of 1964, more than a thousand individuals descended on Mississippi to help the state's African American citizens register to vote. Student organizers, volunteers, and community members canvassed Black neighborhoods to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), a gro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Todd, Lisa Anderson, 1942-
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Subjects:
Todd, Lisa Anderson, > 1942-
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Suffrage > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Mississippi > Politics and government > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1963-1969.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xi, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • In Atlantic City for the Democratic Convention
  • My life before Mississippi
  • Mississippi, 1963 : keeping the waters troubled
  • On to Greensboro, North Carolina, and back to Cornell
  • Planning for Freedom Summer
  • Orientation : how the student volunteers were prepared
  • June 21, 1964
  • Living as a volunteer in Mississippi, 1964
  • My new politics
  • Early work on the convention challenge
  • Lyndon Johnson : the formidable president
  • One woman in Atlantic City
  • Sunday in Atlantic City
  • Humphrey's pleading on Monday
  • Reuther's manipulation on Tuesday
  • The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party turns to protest
  • Wednesday : persuasion fails
  • Victory or defeat
  • Epilogue.